Thursday, April 12, 2012

Shocking Allegations Concerning Behavior of Knoxville Judge in Christian/Newsom Slaying

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by Lee Davis A Knoxville Criminal Court judge was so addicted to pain drugs during his last several years serving on the bench that he was...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

6th Circuit Appeals Court Upholds Child Pornographer’s Life Sentence

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by Lee Davis UNITED STATES v. STEPHEN LYNN HAMMONDS The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the life sentence of a Ja...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

New Tennessee Campus Crime Report Released

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By Jay Perry   The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (“TBI”) recently released their annual Crime on Campus Report for 2011.  This repor...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Tennessee Legislature takes on Judicial Misconduct

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by Lee Davis Tennessee Senate According to a recent report by the  Tennessean , the Tennessee Senate has unanimously approved a bill...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court Permits Strip Searches of Any Inmate No Matter the Crime

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Florence v. County of Burlington Imagine, if you will, that you were arrested for a "minor" crime such as failing to pay ch...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

New Tax for Diversion Applicants is a Bad Idea

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Rep. Eric Watson,  Photo by  Associated Press by Lee Davis The Tennessee House passed a new tax this week that will require people t...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Supreme Court decides two important cases affecting attorneys obligations to clients

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The Supreme Court published opinions in two important cases this week,  LAFLER v. COOPER  and  MARTINEZ v. RYAN .  The cases recognize tw...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hemy Neuman Found Guilty but Mentally Ill

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Last week, the jury reached a verdict in the highly-publicized daycare shooting trial of Hemy Neuman. If you have been following the blog po...

Supreme Court Examines the Possibility of Limitations on Sentences for Juveniles

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The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments surrounding two new cases up for their review. Both involved the question of just how severe a p...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Thirty-Seven Charges of Sexual Battery by an authority figure Reversed by Court of Appeals

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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JIMMY DALE QUALLS Judge Norma McGee Ogle of the Court of Criminal Appeals released an opinion today that revers...